Fix: Change sempahore to pthread conditions
authorDavid Goulet <dgoulet@efficios.com>
Wed, 19 Sep 2012 14:15:45 +0000 (10:15 -0400)
committerDavid Goulet <dgoulet@efficios.com>
Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:40:59 +0000 (11:40 -0400)
Fixes #324

Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: David Goulet <dgoulet@efficios.com>
src/bin/lttng-sessiond/consumer.h
src/bin/lttng-sessiond/main.c

index 1337f32ac0e09e29d39cd5612cfc26e0d0d668c1..5e8ad9b9e7c006bb1999d09a9ba7777c98ff0d94 100644 (file)
@@ -18,8 +18,6 @@
 #ifndef _CONSUMER_H
 #define _CONSUMER_H
 
-#include <semaphore.h>
-
 #include <common/consumer.h>
 #include <common/hashtable/hashtable.h>
 #include <lttng/lttng.h>
@@ -54,7 +52,24 @@ struct consumer_data {
        enum lttng_consumer_type type;
 
        pthread_t thread;       /* Worker thread interacting with the consumer */
-       sem_t sem;
+
+       /* Conditions used by the consumer thread to indicate readiness. */
+       pthread_cond_t cond;
+       pthread_condattr_t condattr;
+       pthread_mutex_t cond_mutex;
+
+       /*
+        * This is a flag condition indicating that the consumer thread is ready
+        * and connected to the lttng-consumerd daemon. This flag MUST only be
+        * updated by locking the condition mutex above or before spawning a
+        * consumer thread.
+        *
+        * A value of 0 means that the thread is NOT ready. A value of 1 means that
+        * the thread consumer did connect successfully to the lttng-consumerd
+        * daemon. A negative value indicates that there is been an error and the
+        * thread has likely quit.
+        */
+       int consumer_thread_is_ready;
 
        /* Mutex to control consumerd pid assignation */
        pthread_mutex_t pid_mutex;
index 730ac656ba199153fd663d825ea4058803b396ea..85a20d795cb253123c0b2753a02a8fcad98e8436 100644 (file)
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@
 #include <grp.h>
 #include <limits.h>
 #include <pthread.h>
-#include <semaphore.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
@@ -81,7 +80,10 @@ static int is_root;                  /* Set to 1 if the daemon is running as root */
 static pid_t ppid;          /* Parent PID for --sig-parent option */
 static char *rundir;
 
-/* Consumer daemon specific control data */
+/*
+ * Consumer daemon specific control data. Every value not initialized here is
+ * set to 0 by the static definition.
+ */
 static struct consumer_data kconsumer_data = {
        .type = LTTNG_CONSUMER_KERNEL,
        .err_unix_sock_path = DEFAULT_KCONSUMERD_ERR_SOCK_PATH,
@@ -90,6 +92,8 @@ static struct consumer_data kconsumer_data = {
        .cmd_sock = -1,
        .pid_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER,
        .lock = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER,
+       .cond = PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER,
+       .cond_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER,
 };
 static struct consumer_data ustconsumer64_data = {
        .type = LTTNG_CONSUMER64_UST,
@@ -99,6 +103,8 @@ static struct consumer_data ustconsumer64_data = {
        .cmd_sock = -1,
        .pid_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER,
        .lock = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER,
+       .cond = PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER,
+       .cond_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER,
 };
 static struct consumer_data ustconsumer32_data = {
        .type = LTTNG_CONSUMER32_UST,
@@ -108,6 +114,8 @@ static struct consumer_data ustconsumer32_data = {
        .cmd_sock = -1,
        .pid_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER,
        .lock = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER,
+       .cond = PTHREAD_COND_INITIALIZER,
+       .cond_mutex = PTHREAD_MUTEX_INITIALIZER,
 };
 
 /* Shared between threads */
@@ -788,6 +796,29 @@ error_poll_create:
        return NULL;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Signal pthread condition of the consumer data that the thread.
+ */
+static void signal_consumer_condition(struct consumer_data *data, int state)
+{
+       pthread_mutex_lock(&data->cond_mutex);
+
+       /*
+        * The state is set before signaling. It can be any value, it's the waiter
+        * job to correctly interpret this condition variable associated to the
+        * consumer pthread_cond.
+        *
+        * A value of 0 means that the corresponding thread of the consumer data
+        * was not started. 1 indicates that the thread has started and is ready
+        * for action. A negative value means that there was an error during the
+        * thread bootstrap.
+        */
+       data->consumer_thread_is_ready = state;
+       (void) pthread_cond_signal(&data->cond);
+
+       pthread_mutex_unlock(&data->cond_mutex);
+}
+
 /*
  * This thread manage the consumer error sent back to the session daemon.
  */
@@ -886,13 +917,13 @@ restart:
                consumer_data->cmd_sock =
                        lttcomm_connect_unix_sock(consumer_data->cmd_unix_sock_path);
                if (consumer_data->cmd_sock < 0) {
-                       sem_post(&consumer_data->sem);
+                       /* On error, signal condition and quit. */
+                       signal_consumer_condition(consumer_data, -1);
                        PERROR("consumer connect");
                        goto error;
                }
-               /* Signal condition to tell that the kconsumerd is ready */
-               sem_post(&consumer_data->sem);
-               DBG("consumer command socket ready");
+               signal_consumer_condition(consumer_data, 1);
+               DBG("Consumer command socket ready");
        } else {
                ERR("consumer error when waiting for SOCK_READY : %s",
                                lttcomm_get_readable_code(-code));
@@ -1446,59 +1477,110 @@ error_create_poll:
  */
 static int spawn_consumer_thread(struct consumer_data *consumer_data)
 {
-       int ret;
+       int ret, clock_ret;
        struct timespec timeout;
 
-       timeout.tv_sec = DEFAULT_SEM_WAIT_TIMEOUT;
-       timeout.tv_nsec = 0;
+       /* Make sure we set the readiness flag to 0 because we are NOT ready */
+       consumer_data->consumer_thread_is_ready = 0;
 
-       /* Setup semaphore */
-       ret = sem_init(&consumer_data->sem, 0, 0);
-       if (ret < 0) {
-               PERROR("sem_init consumer semaphore");
+       /* Setup pthread condition */
+       ret = pthread_condattr_init(&consumer_data->condattr);
+       if (ret != 0) {
+               errno = ret;
+               PERROR("pthread_condattr_init consumer data");
+               goto error;
+       }
+
+       /*
+        * Set the monotonic clock in order to make sure we DO NOT jump in time
+        * between the clock_gettime() call and the timedwait call. See bug #324
+        * for a more details and how we noticed it.
+        */
+       ret = pthread_condattr_setclock(&consumer_data->condattr, CLOCK_MONOTONIC);
+       if (ret != 0) {
+               errno = ret;
+               PERROR("pthread_condattr_setclock consumer data");
                goto error;
        }
 
-       ret = pthread_create(&consumer_data->thread, NULL,
-                       thread_manage_consumer, consumer_data);
+       ret = pthread_cond_init(&consumer_data->cond, &consumer_data->condattr);
+       if (ret != 0) {
+               errno = ret;
+               PERROR("pthread_cond_init consumer data");
+               goto error;
+       }
+
+       ret = pthread_create(&consumer_data->thread, NULL, thread_manage_consumer,
+                       consumer_data);
        if (ret != 0) {
                PERROR("pthread_create consumer");
                ret = -1;
                goto error;
        }
 
+       /* We are about to wait on a pthread condition */
+       pthread_mutex_lock(&consumer_data->cond_mutex);
+
        /* Get time for sem_timedwait absolute timeout */
-       ret = clock_gettime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &timeout);
-       if (ret < 0) {
-               PERROR("clock_gettime spawn consumer");
-               /* Infinite wait for the kconsumerd thread to be ready */
-               ret = sem_wait(&consumer_data->sem);
-       } else {
-               /* Normal timeout if the gettime was successful */
-               timeout.tv_sec += DEFAULT_SEM_WAIT_TIMEOUT;
-               ret = sem_timedwait(&consumer_data->sem, &timeout);
+       clock_ret = clock_gettime(CLOCK_MONOTONIC, &timeout);
+       /*
+        * Set the timeout for the condition timed wait even if the clock gettime
+        * call fails since we might loop on that call and we want to avoid to
+        * increment the timeout too many times.
+        */
+       timeout.tv_sec += DEFAULT_SEM_WAIT_TIMEOUT;
+
+       /*
+        * The following loop COULD be skipped in some conditions so this is why we
+        * set ret to 0 in order to make sure at least one round of the loop is
+        * done.
+        */
+       ret = 0;
+
+       /*
+        * Loop until the condition is reached or when a timeout is reached. Note
+        * that the pthread_cond_timedwait(P) man page specifies that EINTR can NOT
+        * be returned but the pthread_cond(3), from the glibc-doc, says that it is
+        * possible. This loop does not take any chances and works with both of
+        * them.
+        */
+       while (!consumer_data->consumer_thread_is_ready && ret != ETIMEDOUT) {
+               if (clock_ret < 0) {
+                       PERROR("clock_gettime spawn consumer");
+                       /* Infinite wait for the consumerd thread to be ready */
+                       ret = pthread_cond_wait(&consumer_data->cond,
+                                       &consumer_data->cond_mutex);
+               } else {
+                       ret = pthread_cond_timedwait(&consumer_data->cond,
+                                       &consumer_data->cond_mutex, &timeout);
+               }
        }
 
-       if (ret < 0) {
-               if (errno == ETIMEDOUT) {
+       /* Release the pthread condition */
+       pthread_mutex_unlock(&consumer_data->cond_mutex);
+
+       if (ret != 0) {
+               errno = ret;
+               if (ret == ETIMEDOUT) {
                        /*
                         * Call has timed out so we kill the kconsumerd_thread and return
                         * an error.
                         */
-                       ERR("The consumer thread was never ready. Killing it");
+                       ERR("Condition timed out. The consumer thread was never ready."
+                                       " Killing it");
                        ret = pthread_cancel(consumer_data->thread);
                        if (ret < 0) {
                                PERROR("pthread_cancel consumer thread");
                        }
                } else {
-                       PERROR("semaphore wait failed consumer thread");
+                       PERROR("pthread_cond_wait failed consumer thread");
                }
                goto error;
        }
 
        pthread_mutex_lock(&consumer_data->pid_mutex);
        if (consumer_data->pid == 0) {
-               ERR("Kconsumerd did not start");
+               ERR("Consumerd did not start");
                pthread_mutex_unlock(&consumer_data->pid_mutex);
                goto error;
        }
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